Computerization of Orphaned Aquatic Collections -- North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

孤儿水生收藏的计算机化——北卡罗来纳州立自然科学博物馆

• 批准号: 0844873
• 负责人: Wayne Starnes
• 金额: $ 28.5万
• 依托单位: Friends of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0844873&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Computerization; Orphaned; Aquatic; Collections; North

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM), in a major part with prior NSF support, has accomplished the curation, geo-referencing, and data basing of over 50,000 lots of fishes and 21,800 lots of aquatic invertebrates (see: http://collections.naturalsciences.org and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility site). Given further NSF support, the experienced staffs of the NCSM fishes and mollusks units will build on these accomplishments to attempt full assimilation of several orphaned collections adopted by NCSM that are of considerable regional and historic importance (ca. 55,000 lots of fishes, 60,000 lots of mollusks). The major regional scope of these is the Mid-Atlantic States, Southeast, and South Atlantic Bight.Beyond facilitating primary researchers, benefits to conservation planners will be greatly increased by rapid electronic access to biotic occurrence data from across the broad and rapidly developing region served. Education of the public is equally critical to conservation of biodiversity and electronic collections data and mapping capabilities are integral to a new NCSM facility that features near and distant learning experiences on current biodiversity research. Thus empowered, these innovations should better serve to enhance the public's appreciation for this diversity and instill the will to protect it. Five technicians, well schooled in best practices during the project, will facilitate the field of biodiversity research well into the future.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与重新投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。北卡罗来纳州立自然科学博物馆（NCSM）在先前的NSF支持的主要部分中，已经完成了策划，地理参考和数据基础，并且数据基础超过50,000鱼和21,800鱼和21,800众多的水库（请参阅）（请参阅（请参阅）（请参阅： http://collections.naturalsciences.org和全球生物多样性信息设施网站）。在进一步的NSF支持下，NCSM鱼类和软体动物单元的经验丰富的员工将基于这些成就，以尝试完全同化NCSM采用的几个孤儿收藏，这些收藏品具有相当大的区域和历史性重要性（约55,000个，55,000个鱼类，60,000个Mollusks）。其中的主要区域范围是大西洋中部，东南和南大西洋野兽。促进主要研究人员的促进，通过快速的电子访问从整个广阔且快速发展的地区提供的生物出现数据，将大大提高保护计划者的好处。公众的教育对于保护生物多样性和电子收集数据和映射功能至关重要，这对于新的NCSM设施是不可或缺的，该设施具有近乎遥远的学习经验在当前的生物多样性研究中。因此，这些创新应更好地提高公众对这种多样性的赞赏，并灌输保护它的意愿。在项目期间，五位技术人员在最佳实践中获得了良好的教育，将促进生物多样性研究的未来领域。